rotatory

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So, when it comes to rotating players, is it really any wonder that managers are increasingly choosing to use domestic cup competitions as rotatory playgrounds?

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Screw and Screw-back.—This is putting a rotatory motion on a ball, causing it to spin on a horizontal axis backwards.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis

Rō′tary, turning round like a wheel: rotatory: held in rotation.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

He had discontinued all manual connection with his blue glasses; he had even pressed both hands together, in a rotatory, nervous way, while he went on speaking.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Owing to the rotatory motion of the globe and also to the curve of the coasts, the Stream follows a constant direction to the north-east.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various